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The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington Set
ISBN: 9780776621456 / Angielski / Miękka / 1166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never private, emotional but not confessional, thoughtful but never cerebral. The subtlety of her craft is the hallmark of a modernist poet whose work opens to the world and its readers. She details intoxicating romance and mature love, the pleasures of marriage and motherhood, the experience of raising two sons to adulthood, and the ineffable pain of divorce. As she moved through life, she wrote clearly and uncompromisingly about the vast sweep of Canada, her travels to new lands, the passage of time, the death of her... Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never private, emotional but not confessional, thoughtful but never cerebra... |
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147,99 zł |
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Legends of Vancouver
ISBN: 9781553657217 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,72 zł |
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A Peasant's Guide to Canada
ISBN: 9780992741709 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lyn Marsh's grandparents emigrated to Canada after the trauma of the Finnish Civil War and brought with them resources and skills essential for survival in an evolving and sometimes hostile environment. The reinvention of one woman's life on a farm in Ontario since the 1960s is inspiring-- a revelation of landscape, family, career and evolutionary psychology. Woven with Canadian literary history, stories of danger and grace, hardship and plenty, education and tragic loss, as well as the laughter and love of children and horses, it is a unique celebration of what is possible to recover when...
Lyn Marsh's grandparents emigrated to Canada after the trauma of the Finnish Civil War and brought with them resources and skills essential for surviv...
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58,86 zł |
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Swing Beam: My Father's Story of Life on the Farm and the Barns He Loved and Lost
ISBN: 9781927023624 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through narrative, poetry and images, this life history account reclaims the silenced voices and life histories of both our aging farmers and aging rural architectures.
Laura Lush seeks out the significance and meaning of her father's life spent on a farm, and his emotional response to the razing of his two bank barns. Through narrative, poetry and images, this life history account reclaims the silenced voices and life histories of both our aging farmers and aging ru...
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90,63 zł |
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Showing the Story: Creative Nonfiction by New Writers
ISBN: 9781927023631 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Showing the Story" collects nonfiction by new writers: clear voices, fresh content, engaging storytelling.
This collection shows what people new to writing, given opportunity and support and guidance, can accomplish. These new authors write with economy, grace, precision, courage. Their stories pull us into spaces unfamiliar to us, and yet in the things that happen in those spaces, things we may not have known about, we recognize pieces of ourselves.
"Showing the Story" collects nonfiction by new writers: clear voices, fresh content, engaging storytelling.
This collection shows what people new ... |
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226,57 zł |
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27 Winters and Counting...
ISBN: 9781460232262 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Donald Mackinnon is a survivor. Anyone who has lived through twenty-seven bitterly cold Winnipeg winters, qualifies as a survivor. Now, he's hoping to find his soul mate; the woman he will spend the rest of his life with. When he meets teacher Mary Santucci, he feels he's found her. Their relationship blossoms, although they see many things differently. She loves swimming and he doesn't. She hates camping while he was a decorated Boy Scout. He's a meat eater, she's a vegetarian. He can finally see the suburban home and kids in his future, but a picket fence is not one of her priorities. Can...
Donald Mackinnon is a survivor. Anyone who has lived through twenty-seven bitterly cold Winnipeg winters, qualifies as a survivor. Now, he's hoping to...
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90,58 zł |
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A Kiss Beside the Monkey Bars: Stories by Four New Writers
ISBN: 9781927023839 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SULTAN AMEERALI, born in Toronto to Sri Lankan parents, chronicles the hilarious and shocking absurdities of the "brown man" making do in white Canada through bottom-feeder jobs and heartless relationships. JENNIFER LEE, produces wry, low-key tales about living across cultural boundaries, first in southern Ontario, then during a year in China, her parents' homeland. KWAI LI, takes us to the tiny marginalized community of Chinese in Tangra, a suburb of post-colonial Calcutta, where as a six-year-old she stood watch for the cops as her mother turned a tannery by day into a moonshine operation...
SULTAN AMEERALI, born in Toronto to Sri Lankan parents, chronicles the hilarious and shocking absurdities of the "brown man" making do in white Canada...
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181,25 zł |
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Little Red Dress: Short Shorts
ISBN: 9781481186292 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of short stories in a chapbook format. The title story "Little Red Dress" captures a love affair between two musicians, one French, the other English. They make beautiful music together between the sheet music. The other "Short Shorts" cover the following themes: coming of age, loss, innocence, regret and false expectations.
A collection of short stories in a chapbook format. The title story "Little Red Dress" captures a love affair between two musicians, one French, the o...
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49,80 zł |
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Anne of Avonlea
ISBN: 9781500339708 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,78 zł |
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Defacing Poetry: A Collection
ISBN: 9781491267783 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 19-year-old Laura Moore is living in Saskatoon with her boyfriend, Ian Matthews, against the wishes of their parents. Life in Saskatoon is dismal. Laura and Ian live in a dank basement apartment and work at dead-end jobs. When Ian decides he has had enough and leaves Laura to move back home, Laura has a very literary reaction. Defacing Poetry is a novella by Canadian author, Samantha Adkins, who has added nine short stories to create this haunting collection.
19-year-old Laura Moore is living in Saskatoon with her boyfriend, Ian Matthews, against the wishes of their parents. Life in Saskatoon is dismal. Lau...
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40,74 zł |
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John Bucham, Collection novels
ISBN: 9781500316921 / Angielski / Miękka / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Buchan, (1875 - 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. Buchan was elected Member of Parliament for the Combined Scottish Universities, but he spent most of his time on his writing career, notably writing The Thirty-Nine Steps. Buchan proved to be enthusiastic about literacy, as well as the evolution of Canadian culture. In this book: The Thirty-nine Steps Greenmantle Mr. Standfast Prester John John Burnet of Barns The Path of the King
John Buchan, (1875 - 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadia...
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101,91 zł |
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May Agnes Fleming, Collection novels
ISBN: 9781500404215 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. May Agnes Fleming (November 15, 1840 - March 24, 1880) was a Canadian novelist. She was "one of the first Canadians to pursue a highly successful career as a writer of popular fiction." In this book: The Unseen Bridgegroom, or, Wedded For a Week A Terrible Secret The Midnight Queen The Baronet's Bride
May Agnes Fleming (November 15, 1840 - March 24, 1880) was a Canadian novelist. She was "one of the first Canadians to pursue a highly successful care...
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86,09 zł |
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They Have to Take You in
ISBN: 9781927725139 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "We are reading our way out of sadness." So writes Linda Rogers in her fine poem, "Paper Stairs." And as our relationship with home and family is a complicated and varied one, Ursula Pflug's Hidden Brook Press anthology They Have to Take You In, provides the reader with ample evidence of the profound complexity of blood and clan. The Welsh word "hiraeth" translates roughly as "longing for home," and yet there are those for whom home is not so positive and the fine line between being homesick and being sick of home is just as often not so fine. "I remember being put out on the street/ at the...
"We are reading our way out of sadness." So writes Linda Rogers in her fine poem, "Paper Stairs." And as our relationship with home and family is a co...
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86,09 zł |
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Sara Jeannette Duncan, Collection novels
ISBN: 9781500642938 / Angielski / Miękka / 630 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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104,22 zł |
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Ralph Connor, Collection novels
ISBN: 9781500653507 / Angielski / Miękka / 630 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,69 zł |
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Empires on the Move WWI
ISBN: 9781502353276 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,47 zł |
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A Rich Poor Life
ISBN: 9781927023815 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,99 zł |
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Throwback: Ottawa Arts Review, Volume 7.1
ISBN: 9781492122456 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are all made and unmade by our creative predecessors, whether we would have it or not, taking the past and reshaping it to express our own thoughts. Every act of creation, then, is a throwback-an homage to every word you read throughout every day, every image that flashes in front of your eyes. Pick your medium, brush away the weight of history like it's nothing, and puzzle-piece your identity together with scraps of the past, as others have done before you.
We are all made and unmade by our creative predecessors, whether we would have it or not, taking the past and reshaping it to express our own thoughts...
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31,68 zł |
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Chester Brown: Conversations
ISBN: 9781496802521 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The early 1980s saw a revolution in mainstream comics--in subject matter, artistic integrity, and creators' rights--as new methods of publishing and distribution broadened the possibilities. Among those artists utilizing these new methods, Chester Brown (b. 1960) quickly developed a cult following due to the undeniable quality and originality of his Yummy Fur (1983-1994). Chester Brown: Conversations collects interviews covering all facets of the cartoonist's long career and includes several pieces from now-defunct periodicals and fanzines. It also includes original... The early 1980s saw a revolution in mainstream comics--in subject matter, artistic integrity, and creators' rights--as new methods of publishing an... |
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187,55 zł |
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Mustang Summer: Stories Tall and Short
ISBN: 9781501088353 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,39 zł |
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